Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1996 11:15:44 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@Glue.umd.edu> To: Martin Cracauer <cracauer@wavehh.hanse.de> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: internationalization Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.91.960321111445.14148F-100000@skipper.eng.umd.edu> In-Reply-To: <9603210930.AA22938@wavehh.hanse.de>
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On Thu, 21 Mar 1996, Martin Cracauer wrote: > chuckr@Glue.umd.EDU (Chuck Robey) wrote: > > >I am just a little puzzled on one point. In ports, we have a healthy > >sized couple of sections dedicated to ports that have been handcrafted > >for Russian and Japanese FreeBSDers. I was thinking about this, and I > >occurred to me that probably the largest group of FreeBSDers with a > >non-English home tongue would be the Germans. How come there is no > >German section? Are a very large number of Germans content with English > >programs, or is the interest not there, or are these things showing up on > >different venues? > > >I don't speak German myself, but it does seem unreasonable, given the > >size of the German audience. I would suppose this would go with equal > >force for the French folks (I read the comments of many French FreeBSD > >contributors with interest). Why is there no /usr/ports/french? > > I think the average Japan and Russia user is in a more diffucult > situation, because a) English is teached to every school kid in > germany (but not in the former DDR up to 19989) and b) German is quite > similar to english. > > Personally, I like it the way it is. My english is far from perfect, > but I really hate reading most German translations of computing > documents. Thanks, guys, (including Thomas Graichen's reply), it makes more sense now. ========================================================================== Chuck Robey chuckr@eng.umd.edu, I run FreeBSD-current on n3lxx + Journey2 Three Accounts for the Super-users in the sky, Seven for the Operators in their halls of fame, Nine for Ordinary Users doomed to crie, One for the Illegal Cracker with his evil game In the Domains of Internet where the data lie. One Account to rule them all, One Account to watch them, One Account to make them all and in the network bind them.
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